Thoothukkudi #36
Candidatures190every name on every ballot
Distinct candidates186as the source spells them
Parties31distinct, as published
Years contested131977 to 2024
Largest field37in 2019
Every candidature
| Year | Pos | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | Kanimozhi KarunanidhiWON | DMK | 5,40,729 | 55.30% |
| 2024 | 2 | Sivasamy Velumani R | AIADM | 1,47,991 | 15.10% |
| 2024 | 3 | Vijayaseelan Sdr | TMCM | 1,22,380 | 12.50% |
| 2024 | 4 | Rowena Ruth Jane J | NTK | 1,20,300 | 12.30% |
| 2024 | 5 | Rajha N P | NIP | 6,640 | 0.70% |
| 2024 | 6 | Arunadevi R | IND | 6,072 | 0.60% |
| 2024 | 7 | Chithirai Jegan S | IND | 3,640 | 0.40% |
| 2024 | 8 | Sivaneswaran J | IND | 3,376 | 0.30% |
| 2024 | 9 | Samuel T | IND | 2,245 | 0.20% |
| 2024 | 10 | Manikkaraj A | BSP | 2,195 | 0.20% |
| 2024 | 11 | Aasiriyar Shanmuga Sundaram K | IND | 1,839 | 0.20% |
| 2024 | 12 | Kaleermurugapaventhan R | MNK | 1,792 | 0.20% |
| 2024 | 13 | Ponkumaran T P S | IND | 897 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 14 | Jeyakumar C | IND | 829 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 15 | Gandhimallar S M | IND | 805 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 16 | Bishop Dr Godfrey Noble | AJPK | 769 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 17 | Perumalkumar P | PMTDK | 739 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 18 | Esakkimuthu V | IND | 710 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 19 | Kannan G | IND | 689 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 20 | David Jebaseelan J | IND | 663 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 21 | Sudalaimuthu P | IND | 578 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 22 | Krishnan S | IND | 480 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 23 | Radhakrishnan V G | IND | 461 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 24 | James P | IND | 444 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 25 | Ponraj K | IND | 429 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 26 | Prasanna Kumar M | IND | 396 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 27 | Selvamuthukumar M | IND | 341 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 28 | Senthil Kumar S | IND | 291 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 1 | Kanimozhi KarunanidhiWON | DMK | 5,63,143 | 56.80% |
| 2019 | 2 | Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan | BJP | 2,15,934 | 21.80% |
| 2019 | 3 | Dr. Bhuvaneswaran, M. | IND | 76,866 | 7.80% |
| 2019 | 4 | Christantine Rajasekar, S. | NTK | 49,222 | 5.00% |
| 2019 | 5 | Pon Kumaran, T.P.S. | MNM | 25,702 | 2.60% |
| 2019 | 6 | Subhashini Mallathi, R.C. | IND | 8,109 | 0.80% |
| 2019 | 7 | Sivaneswaran, J. | IND | 5,252 | 0.50% |
| 2019 | 8 | Sankaralingam, M. | IND | 3,029 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 9 | Siva, V. | BSP | 2,927 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 10 | Maharajan, M. | PSPL | 2,922 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 11 | Gabriel James Fernando | PPIS | 2,549 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 12 | Rajakumar Naidu, E.V.S. | TTNP | 2,516 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 13 | Guru, K. | IND | 2,276 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 14 | Saravanan, G. | IND | 2,135 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 15 | Amalan Rajiv Bonifas | IND | 2,005 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 16 | Rajalingam, M. | IND | 1,866 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 17 | Bala Murugan, P. | IND | 1,699 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 18 | Ramakrishnan, P. | IND | 1,671 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 19 | Ganesan, M. | IND | 1,453 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 20 | Selvin, B. | IND | 929 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 21 | Anto Hillery, M. | IND | 924 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 22 | Jaya Ganesh, D. | NIP | 908 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 23 | Er.Pradeep Ganesan, M.P. | IND | 887 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 24 | Rajkumar Poliah | UBM | 689 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 25 | Ramesh, A. | IND | 669 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 26 | Sunman, V. | IND | 615 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 27 | Ponraj, S. | IND | 560 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 28 | Germanus, S. | CDF | 494 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 29 | Ravi Sankar, J. | IND | 487 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 30 | Jeyaraj, A. | IND | 477 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 31 | Senai Natarajan, R. | IND | 474 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 32 | Rama Krishnan, M. | IND | 473 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 33 | Lourdes, S. | IND | 460 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 34 | Jasper Gnana Martin, G. | IND | 436 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 35 | Ponnusamy, M. | IND | 436 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 36 | Marakatha Raghava Raj, T. | IND | 428 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 37 | James, G. | IND | 407 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 1 | Jeyasingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee.JWON | AIADM | 3,66,052 | 39.90% |
| 2014 | 2 | Jegan. P | DMK | 2,42,050 | 26.40% |
| 2014 | 3 | Joel. S | MDMK | 1,82,191 | 19.90% |
| 2014 | 4 | Shanmugam, A.P.C.V. | INC | 63,080 | 6.90% |
| 2014 | 5 | Pushparayan.M. | AAP | 26,476 | 2.90% |
| 2014 | 6 | Mohanraj. A | CPI | 14,993 | 1.60% |
| 2014 | 7 | Ayyadurai. S | BSP | 3,205 | 0.30% |
| 2014 | 8 | Alwarsamy Karthikeyan.L | IND | 1,727 | 0.20% |
| 2014 | 9 | Samuel. A.S. | IND | 1,157 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 10 | Panneerselvam.C | IND | 1,129 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 11 | Vinston Anto. S | IND | 983 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 12 | Ramkumar. V | IND | 784 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 13 | Santhadevi. S | IND | 765 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 14 | Anandharaj, M. | IND | 739 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 1 | Jeyadurai.S.RWON | DMK | 3,11,017 | 47.40% |
| 2009 | 2 | Cynthia Pandian.Dr | AIADM | 2,34,368 | 35.70% |
| 2009 | 3 | Sunther.M.S | DMDK | 61,403 | 9.40% |
| 2009 | 4 | Saravanan.S | BJP | 27,013 | 4.10% |
| 2009 | 5 | Jeevankumar.E.Pa | BSP | 6,737 | 1.00% |
| 2009 | 6 | Kandivel.P | IND | 5,522 | 0.80% |
| 2009 | 7 | Ramkumar.V | IND | 3,010 | 0.50% |
| 2009 | 8 | Ramakrishnan.V | IND | 1,402 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 9 | Muthu.S | IND | 1,246 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 10 | Arunkumar Puvi Arasu.S | IND | 956 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 11 | Murugan.A | IND | 913 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 12 | Ponraj.T | IND | 817 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 13 | Raghupathi.S | IND | 603 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 14 | Sundaravel.K | IND | 580 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 15 | Prabhakaran.P | IND | 576 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 1 | Dhanuskodi Athithan, R.WON | INC | 3,70,127 | 58.60% |
| 2004 | 2 | Amirtha Ganesan, R. | AIADM | 2,03,052 | 32.20% |
| 2004 | 3 | Appavu. M | JDU | 39,333 | 6.20% |
| 2004 | 4 | Sridhar Babu. C | IND | 5,774 | 0.90% |
| 2004 | 5 | Kasipandian. T | BSP | 3,606 | 0.60% |
| 2004 | 6 | Thirumalai Nambi. K | IND | 1,904 | 0.30% |
| 2004 | 7 | Shanmuganathan, K.G. | IND | 1,650 | 0.30% |
| 2004 | 8 | Muthukumar, A. | IND | 1,518 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 9 | Suresh. S | JP | 1,505 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 10 | Chinnadurai. G | IND | 1,386 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 11 | Sulaiman Sait Alim. A | IND | 1,355 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 12 | Kalyana Suntharam. A | IND | 968 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 13 | Ari Puthiran, A. | IND | 820 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 14 | Rajagopalan, N. | IND | 784 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 1 | Pandian, P.H.WON | AIADM | 2,49,975 | 40.90% |
| 1999 | 2 | Geetha Jeevan, P. | DMK | 2,23,481 | 36.60% |
| 1999 | 3 | Bakthavatchalam, P.V. | PT | 1,12,941 | 18.50% |
| 1999 | 4 | Sethu Rama Pandian, M. | AIFB | 3,913 | 0.60% |
| 1999 | 5 | Sundararaj, S. | IND | 2,534 | 0.40% |
| 1999 | 6 | Suyambulingam, T. | IND | 2,463 | 0.40% |
| 1999 | 7 | Socrates, J.D. | IND | 2,288 | 0.40% |
| 1999 | 8 | Mohamed Sheik Ibrahim, A. | IND | 864 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 9 | Harikrishnan, P. | IND | 733 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 10 | Lakshmanan, K. | IND | 554 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 11 | Chandra Prakash, N. | IND | 359 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 12 | Dharmaseelan, M. | IND | 242 | 0.00% |
| 1999 | 13 | Saravanan, C. | IND | 207 | 0.00% |
| 1998 | 1 | Janarthanan, R.WON | AIADM | 2,47,823 | 40.70% |
| 1998 | 2 | Sarath Kumar, R. | DMK | 2,40,919 | 39.50% |
| 1998 | 3 | Savior Selva Suresh, Dr. A. | PT | 86,419 | 14.20% |
| 1998 | 4 | Edmund, G.R. | MGRAD | 16,789 | 2.80% |
| 1998 | 5 | Krishnakanthan Yadhav | IND | 3,795 | 0.60% |
| 1998 | 6 | Basker, P. | IND | 1,100 | 0.20% |
| 1998 | 7 | Nagaimugan, K. | RJD | 821 | 0.10% |
| 1998 | 8 | Velmurugan, S. | IND | 348 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 1 | Sivaprakasam D.S.A.WON | DMK | 2,95,001 | 44.00% |
| 1996 | 2 | Rajaselvam A.R. | AIADM | 1,76,721 | 26.40% |
| 1996 | 3 | Kutty Alias Shunmuga Chidambaram C.A.R. | MDMK | 77,648 | 11.60% |
| 1996 | 4 | Krishnasamy K. | JP | 61,567 | 9.20% |
| 1996 | 5 | Ponniah A.R. | BJP | 25,545 | 3.80% |
| 1996 | 6 | Nagireddi O. | IND | 2,497 | 0.40% |
| 1996 | 7 | Noordeen N.S. | IND | 2,036 | 0.30% |
| 1996 | 8 | Appasu Deivendran | IND | 1,461 | 0.20% |
| 1996 | 9 | Rayappan M. | IND | 1,425 | 0.20% |
| 1996 | 10 | Muthia Devar | IND | 1,062 | 0.20% |
| 1996 | 11 | Johny Selvaraj Alias Thiruselvam | IND | 692 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 12 | Ponraj P. | IND | 647 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 13 | Chandramohan A. | IND | 550 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 14 | Tamilselvi T. | IND | 409 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 15 | Devadoss R. | IND | 395 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 16 | Jeevarathinam S. | IND | 335 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 1 | Janarthanan M.R.WON | AIADM | 3,51,048 | 60.70% |
| 1991 | 2 | Kandasamy K.P. | DMK | 1,97,456 | 34.10% |
| 1991 | 3 | Krishnakanthan Yadav S. | PMK | 10,055 | 1.70% |
| 1991 | 4 | Jebaraj M.P. | JP | 2,619 | 0.50% |
| 1991 | 5 | Prabhakar P. | TMM | 1,317 | 0.20% |
| 1991 | 6 | Thomas T. | IND | 474 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 7 | Soundararajan N. | IND | 455 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 8 | Jeyaraj C. | IND | 397 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 9 | Nesaraj R. | IND | 389 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 10 | Jothi Prakasha Siraramania Thevar | IND | 348 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 11 | Vijayakumar B. | IND | 321 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 12 | Pitchai V. | IND | 288 | 0.00% |
| 1991 | 13 | Paramasivan S. | IND | 256 | 0.00% |
| 1989 | 1 | JanartananWON | AIADM | 3,94,444 | 64.10% |
| 1989 | 2 | D.S.A. Sivaprakasam | DMK | 2,03,309 | 33.10% |
| 1989 | 3 | S.Ayyadurai | IND | 2,308 | 0.40% |
| 1989 | 4 | S.Nangamathu | TMM | 1,397 | 0.20% |
| 1989 | 5 | P.Arumugadoss Yadhav | IND | 1,159 | 0.20% |
| 1989 | 6 | V.Sodalaimani | IND | 786 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 7 | G.Gasparraja | IND | 705 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 8 | Channakiya P.Regu | IND | 597 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 9 | M.Rayappan | IND | 555 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 10 | C.Ayyanar. | IND | 477 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 11 | S.Vemurugan Pillai | IND | 394 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 12 | C.Ramasamy | IND | 344 | 0.10% |
| 1989 | 13 | K.Senthilvel | IND | 292 | 0.00% |
| 1984 | 1 | M.R. JanardhananWON | AIADM | 2,96,897 | 55.50% |
| 1984 | 2 | D.S.A. Sivaprakasam | DMK | 2,10,951 | 39.50% |
| 1984 | 3 | P. Devapiran | IND | 4,702 | 0.90% |
| 1984 | 4 | J. Kulandai | IND | 2,541 | 0.50% |
| 1980 | 1 | Sivaprakasam D.S.A.WON | DMK | 2,56,626 | 54.00% |
| 1980 | 2 | Arunachalam V. | AIADM | 1,96,664 | 41.30% |
| 1980 | 3 | Murugesan S. | IND | 7,614 | 1.60% |
| 1980 | 4 | Pandian | IND | 2,026 | 0.40% |
| 1980 | 5 | Chellasamy P. | IND | 1,256 | 0.30% |
| 1980 | 6 | Subba Naicker S. | IND | 1,156 | 0.20% |
| 1980 | 7 | David Nadar | IND | 857 | 0.20% |
| 1980 | 8 | Gnannsundaram Pillai Z. | IND | 840 | 0.20% |
| 1980 | 9 | Ramasamy Reddiar P. | IND | 492 | 0.10% |
| 1977 | 1 | Arunachalam V.WON | AIADM | 3,04,562 | 68.60% |
| 1977 | 2 | Samsuddin Alias Kathiravan K.M. | DMK | 1,21,869 | 27.40% |
| 1977 | 3 | Ganapathy K.P. | IND | 4,414 | 1.00% |
| 1977 | 4 | Thanu Pillai P.T. | IND | 2,485 | 0.60% |
| 1977 | 5 | Moses Kangasabai S. | IND | 1,458 | 0.30% |
| 1977 | 6 | Muruganantham S.A. | IND | 1,435 | 0.30% |
Rows are ordered by year, most recent first, then by finishing position as published. Winner rows are tinted; NOTA rows are set apart because NOTA is not a party and is never a candidate.